Session #1 8:30-9:45 Global, Creative, and Entrepreneurial: Defining High Quality Education (Keynote - Yong Zhao) @ Hall B1 SDCC

  • ISTE CEO and the top 5 things he has learned over his tenure
  • Mahalo Anita, conference organizer (retiring)

  • Image: GPS, you need to know where you are going, you set the direction, if you choose the wrong goal...self-direction
  • Right now we are lost with what is the purpose of education
  • Technology to imrprove test scores, drive data systems, teacher evaluation
  • http://zhaolearning.com, Twitter, Facebbok
  • World Class Learners (new book)
  • PISA: Every three years globally and China did so well & Sputnik moment of education, and people are trying to figure it out the top five
  • China is the envied country (Surprising Shanghai from Harvard Education Press) so disappointing for him
  • China's education system has the best and worst educations combined
  • Why aren't the model minority happy? Asians 5% of population yet 20% of ivy league. However, they don't carry leadership positions in the workforce. Why is their still a glass ceiling? What about our eduction..East Asian education?
  • Why is America still here (from a historical perspective)? It has always been bad. Look at the data.
  • A Nation at Work, Two Million Minutes (movie)
  • Who made the America the most prosperous country/economy of the world?
  • Paradox - PISA data from his new book (math vs. entepreneurial capability), PISA has a negative correlation with entrep.
  • 2003 TIMSS: American students are mathematically ignorant; confidence and enjoyment have a negative correlation with higher scores; confidence unerpinps the drive to innovate.
  • Common core for Lady Gaga? Curriculum is making a bet of what will matter in the future. it is selective. Common core is "college and career" ready.
  • Day of Empire, The Rise of the Creative Class (Why some areas become more prosperous than others: technology, diversity of talents (tolerance), and entrepenuerial capability (creativity). Creativity cannot be taught but it can be killed.
  • What matters? Do you allow exceptional talents to exist?
  • Gaps exist. What gaps matter? We need creativity. Manufacturing is being replaced by machines.
  • Business, social, intra, policy entrepreneurs (someone who is unhappy & makes a change) - you don't wait to make a difference (focus more if the human element), don't reduce education into a "sausage making machine"
  • Education is about enhanced human talents - the curriculum should follow the child, personalized & strengths based. School has to be product oriented with technology. Through designing, they learned. Not only about project based. It will happen beyond our walls. Global collaborators, not competitors.
  • Test scores don't matter. Help students to maximize their potential.

Session #2 10:30-11:30 High Tech High Student Work (Spotlight - Larry Rosenstock) @ 4 SDCC
  • Also have graduate school
  • Began in 2000
  • Math integrates better with Art
  • Public exhibition (last phase), thousands of people come, 3 times a year
  • Dependent upon the study group
  • Display of student work
  • Pure lottery, no AP, field work, "this could be me"
  • Identity in adolesence
  • Protocols from project zero, 55 minutes - can't talk until the last 5 minutes; rule of thirds - about correct forward and not judging
  • Paradox therapy (cigarette machine)
  • Digital identities: don't put restrictions on kids
  • Inverted school intentionally
  • Professional development & planning: teachers meet before school starts, institutes & residencies, project zero (how much do we know about student work)
  • Graduation speeches - First time someone asked me, "What do you think?"
  • Over emphasizes students talking
  • Challenges: anxious parents with math, anxious abo ut goi ng to great schools (predictability), 7k/year,
  • HS has 400, came from a small school, school size
  • Doesn't hold back...
  • College counselors: worked for a selective college office, 1st gen
  • Adisory groups (9-12), multiple-age groups - that could be ?'s, home visits, colleges all come recruiting
  • Odessy-Socratic method (like justice class at Harvard) in addition to project-based learning
  • No tenure. Young teachers. 10-12 of 400 teachers not returning; directors (principal) meet every Monday morning with Larry, rate teachers without names on a four scale...full hiring & firing power
  • Passion, purpose & play

Session #3 12:15-1:15 Google To The Max (Spotlight -Howie DiBlasi) @ 20C SDCC

  • Ppt. available on website
  • Slide#11, file converter application
  • Session not what I was hoping for, will check out the Ppt. later...leaving...

Session #4 2:00-3:00 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2009: The Role of Technology (Panel-Sarah McPherson) @ 26A SDCC

  • Session focused on SIG action research group
  • Shared trends keynote covered in the am

Session #5 3:45-4:45 ISTE Ignite Spotlight #2 @ 6A SDCC

  • Adam Bellow- An army on Twitter, believe you can make a difference, complex questions, band together, risk involved in freedom, make connections
  • Jonathan Blank-technology, pedagogy. Curriculum of the future: digital delivery,engaging software with great instructors, gaming (levels, badging), individualization, choices, brain science, open-source frameworks, success-based education, testing when ready.
  • Jac de Haan, techwithintent.com
  • Dave Edyburn - Goldilocks and the Library, wikipedia, simple wikipedia, text compactor (you tube video) for cognitively rescaling, Vozme (text to speech)...can convert to mp3, move to Google translator
  • Johnny Hamilton - researched based instructional strategies (without technology): non-linguistic representations (drawing tools, simulations), cooperative learning (web 2.0), concept maps. Change the map. seven blind mice - change the lens.
  • Summer Howarth - resetting the moral compass, you can make a difference, the face of the invisible hearts club, instagram, organic, message board
  • Erin Klein - big projects need big help, message your class (remind101), educreations, class connect, class dojo (grade 2),
  • Betty Ray - Design thinking (define the challenge, interpretation, ideation, experimentation, evolution) edutopia design camp
  • Ben Smith - Be creative. Need to give up control. Work backwards. Creative, communicate & collaborate, innovation, etc.
  • Allison White - igniting creativity, use tech as a thinking tool. Three main areas: authentic audience for purpose (students made their own e-books), social interaction (learn French, blog in character, gropon, voice thread, iMove commercials on web). Bridge logic and creativity.